Coughing Clown

Coughing Clown (died 1876) was a Sioux war chief.

Biography
Coughing Clown was born to the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains, and he became a war chief during the 1860s. Coughing Clown resisted the United States' illegal settlement of Sioux country in The Dakotas and Montana, and in 1876 he defended his village from the US Army. He was killed by the American musketeers along a river ford while the Americans headed to torch his village's war hut.